This week’s curator, Livio Hughes, shares a blog post looking at the way in which the introduction of the updated Payment Services Directive (PSD2) – affecting UK banks irrespective of Brexit – will force the banking industry to engage with significant...

Much has been written – both in our blog and elsewhere – about the many barriers to achieving the meaningful and sustainable digital transformation needed for businesses to operate in the challenging business conditions prevailing in the early 21st...

This week’s curator, Livio Hughes, looks at the ongoing challenges faced by banks in coming to terms with (and preparing for) lasting digital transformation in the face of a range of industry threats, including the likely entry into the market by tech giants alongside...

The recent announcement that Wells Fargo entered into a partnership with Amazon, signalling the online retailer’s entry into the tricky – but massive – US student loan market, is only the latest in a series of alarm bells being sounded in the financial...

Do insurers get FinTech? Coming at a time when, according to Gartner, “half of CEOs expect their industries to be substantially or unrecognizably transformed by digital”, the apparent lack of engagement with FinTech displayed by insurers in a recent...

We are currently working alongside some fantastic asset management (AM) clients in Europe, which has allowed us to delve into some of the current dynamics shaping the European AM sector, research its emerging and still-tentative relationship with digital and social...